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- From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Any known problems with Borland C++ 3.1 / Windows NT
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:53:10 GMT
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
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- In article <19122@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> hughes@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (S. Hughes) writes:
- >I too am unable to run the Borland C++ IDE. It seems NT is convinced
- >that it is an OS/2 program. Anybody know how to tell NT to execute as
- >DOS??
-
- Apparently the DOS IDE will not run. A Borland person told me that I should
- try to create a makefile and use the command-line compiler if I want to
- use Borland C++ under NT, but I was unable to get that to work either.
- "MAKE" crashes my machine; so does the "EMSTEST" executable. PIF settings
- don't seem to help.
-
- I'm pretty irritated by this; I realize this is only the first beta, but
- one would think that Microsoft would have tested BC++ with NT. I realize
- that Borland is a competitor, but an OS that doesn't support competitor's
- software just won't fly. Borland C++ is simply a more usable environment
- for what I'm doing; besides, I need the TurboVision library for C++. Not
- what I'd be using for pleasure, ideally, but when you're developing something
- that has to run on a 640K DOS machine there isn't much pleasure in your life.
- I was hoping to use NT as a crash-barrier for testing the app as I work on it,
- otherwise every crash causes a painful reboot.
-
- BTW, NT also doesn't know that "BC.EXE" (the Basic Compiler for Visual BASIC
- for DOS) is not the same as "BC.EXE" (The Borland C++ 3.1 DOS IDE). They
- are both put into the applications group with the same icon. So it doesn't
- look like they are even testing NT internally with their own software...
-
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